The 252nd installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on August 10th, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world. If you missed last week’s9to5LinuxWeekly Roundup, catch up with everything GNU/Linux/Open Sourcehere.
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This week, we got lots of awesome news, now that I am back from my summer vacation. Debian 13 finally arrived, Linux Mint 22.2, Tails 7.0, and NVIDIA 580 driver entered beta testing, Mesa 25.2 arrived for gamers, and Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS is out too this week with new kernel and graphics stacks.
We also got new releases of the Audacity audio editor, Calibre e-book manager, PeaZip archive manager, Darktable RAW image editor, GStreamer multimedia framework, HandBrake video transcoder, KDE Frameworks software suite, KDE Plasma desktop environment, and Amarok music player.
On top of that, Linus Torvalds announced the first Linux 6.17 Release Candidate for public testing. Below, you can check out this week’s hottest news and access all the distro and package downloads released this past week in the 9to5Linux weekly roundup for August 10th, 2025.
Hot news of the week
- NVIDIA 580 Linux graphics driver enters public beta with better Wayland support
- KDE Plasma 6.4.4 desktop environment improves notifications, Flatpak support
- Audacity 3.7.5 audio editor introduces 32-bit PCM support to the FLAC importer
- Darktable 5.2.1 adds support for Nikon D200, Nikon D5300, and Pentax K-r cameras
- Mesa 25.2 open-source graphics stack is out now with many new features
- Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS is now available for download, powered by Linux kernel 6.14
- Calibre 8.8 open-source e-book manager improves support for Kobo devices
- GStreamer 1.26.5 adds JPEG XS support to videorate and imagefreeze
- Tails 7.0 is now available for testing, based on Debian 13 “Trixie” and GNOME 48
- KDE Frameworks 6.17 is out to improve the performance of all QtQuick-based KDE apps
- PeaZip 10.6 introduces dynamic virtual mode, improves archive pre-parsing
- HandBrake 1.10 open-source video transcoder brings new “Social 10MB” presets
- Debian 13 “Trixie” is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.12 LTS
- Linus Torvalds announces the first Linux kernel 6.17 Release Candidate
- Amarok 3.3.1 music player is out with improvements to scripting support
- Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” is now available for download and public beta testing
Other GNU/Linux news of interest
Linux distributions released this week
- Debian Edu (Skolelinux) 13.0
- Debian GNU/Linux 13 KDE Plasma
- Debian GNU/Linux 13 GNOME
- Debian GNU/Linux 13 Xfce
- Debian GNU/Linux 13 Cinnamon
- Debian GNU/Linux 13 LXQt
- Debian GNU/Linux 13 MATE
- Debian GNU/Linux 13 LXDE
- Debian GNU/Linux 13.0 Junior
- Debian GNU/Linux 13 Standard
- Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS
- Ubuntu Server 24.04.3 LTS
- Kubuntu 24.04.3 LTS
- Xubuntu 24.04.3 LTS
- Lubuntu 24.04.3 LTS
- Edubuntu 24.04.3 LTS
- Ubuntu Studio 24.04.3 LTS
- Ubuntu Unity 24.04.3 LTS
- Ubuntu Cinnamon 24.04.3 LTS
- Ubuntu Budgie 24.04.3 LTS
- Ubuntu MATE 24.04.3 LTS
- Ubuntu Kylin 24.04.3 LTS
- Proxmox 4.0 Backup Server
- ExTiX 25.8
- CentOS Stream 10-20250805
- Proxmox 9.0 Virtual Environment
- Bluestar Linux 6.15.9
- EasyOS 6.121
Linux apps, drivers, desktops, and kernels released this week
- Amarok 3.3.1
- HandBrake 1.10.0
- PeaZip 10.6 (GTK)
- PeaZip 10.6 (Qt 6)
- GCC 15.2
- MariaDB 12.0.2
- Calibre 8.8
- GStreamer 1.26.5
- DNF 5.2.16.0
- Rust 1.89.0
- Mozilla Firefox 141.0.3
- Python 3.13.6
- Mesa 25.2
- nftables 1.1.4
- HPLIP 3.25.6
- Darktable 5.2.1
- Chromium 139.0.7258.66
- AbiWord 3.0.7
- NetworkManager 1.54.0
- FreeCAD 1.0.2
- CMake 4.1.0
- systemd 257.8
- OpenSSL 3.5.2
- Audacity 3.7.5
Coming up next week
- GNOME 48.4
- GNOME 49 beta
- …and hopefully many other exciting Linux news and releases!
